1. I think the wig could've been cool with a different jacket. I wonder if she was going for like an inverse Joan Jett w/that combo.

Trudy Styler is everything. She's just joined Meryl Streep, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton, and others I can't remember on my classy lady role models list, 50+ category. She & Sting always seem so real and sincere. It's probs all the tantric sex they have (wasn't that a big story in the 90s at some point?).

So relieved to hear Thompson's expected to survive. I'm pretty peeved about the way Brinsley's shootings have been spun by the NYPD. I'm super annoyed with the bullshit that prominent people & mainstream media have been spewing in an attempt to link Brinsley's acts to protests and demonstrations calling for reform,…

Queer here. I was raised Catholic but never really felt any spiritual pull toward either God or religion. While I wouldn't quite say that I'm an athiest, I definitely don't believe in the monotheistic Christian God so prominent in Western religions. And I also tend to think organized religions, especially those pesky…

love. her. love. her. love her. i fucking love heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer!

The race and class divisions that have plagued U.S. feminisms for centuries persist in the present. As a white feminist pursuing a career in academia, I am ALL about rejecting these divisions, trying to get students to recognize their own privileges, and challenging people's assumptions. Feminism has a lot of…

Weingarten's & AFT-national's support was integral to ending my union's strike last week (Graduate Teaching Fellows Federation 3544). So many of us were out on picket lines talking to each other and to undergraduates about how movements for racial justice, gender equity, and fair & equitable working conditions (and…

No, it's that the end goal is profit. So when I'm genuinely moved but then necessarily reminded that it's in the service of selling me something, it cheapens the whole experience. Which doesn't mean the ad didn't work, or that the people who invested time and energy into creating it "don't count." I used to work in…

Beverly Johnson is awesome. So is Janice Dickinson (which I haven't said since her show Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency). So are all the other women who have come forward and all the others who haven't. We believe you.

I agree! Such an insightful point; I'm really glad she went ahead and said it. The reality is there's always been respectability-touting black folks in the U.S., and usually they have more white friends, social influence, money, etc. Similarly, there's always been misogyny in anti-racist movements. There's a…

At Oregon, the recent campus climate study indicated risk of being victim or perpetrator of sexual violence significantly increases if a person is Greek-associated. Fraternity brothers are 3x more likely to commit sexual violence than other young men on campus. And both women and men involved in Greek Life report…

What a clueless tweet. Of course you don't blame the victim, Ramapo College. You do worse. You erase the victim by sending the message that the onus is on them to prevent their own victimization.

Right there with you. Right. There. With. You.

I've lost hours of my life to KClark covers on youtube. My love for her will endure all things. I love this one of Florence + the Machine's "Heavy in Your Arms"

Do we have the same dog? Are you me? :) I have friends who love ours "because he's just like a cat!"

Chiming in to second the Dasiquin. We've had our little guy on them since we adopted him last winter, and his little knees are so much better! Since he's small & only needs half of one each day, the $60 bag lasts like 4-5 months. Bonus: he loves his nightly treat and waits eagerly by the counter when we come in from…

This cover is terrible, but it didn't have to be. I don't mind that publishers want to target specific markets through cover art—fine, that's how capitalism works. But for the love, can we please dispose of outworn themes? "For women? Make it pink! Wanna put a professional woman on the cover? Okay, but make sure we…

Yep, I can totally see this. So many norms of masculinity just seem like attempts at denying one's own vulnerability—emotional, physical, psychological. But vulnerability is like the fundamental thing humans have in common; we can all get hurt and we're all gonna die someday. Our existences are fragile.

I hope hope hope there's actual change resulting from the task force recommendations. After a seemingly endless series of disheartening events, my goodfeels about my institution are at an all-time low (current grad student). I've had a few moments of visceral disdain for the Oregon O and all the Ducks gear students…

Misogyny is the spirit of the entire industry, because it's the "spirit," if you will, of just about everything. Noticing and calling out misogyny where you see it is what it means to be a feminist (verb), and since misogyny is embedded in our very language, it quite literally exists everywhere we do. Women and…